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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

An overseer; a surveyor. An officer whose duty it is to take care of public roads. One of a board of persons intrusted with the fiscal affairs of a county. Of elections: a person commissioned by a judge of the United States circuit court in a city of over twenty thousand inhabitants, or in any Congressional district, to 'attend at the registration of voters for Congressmen, and so supervise the registry as to insure the detection of improper removals or additions of names.^ 1 Exp. Hall, 1 Pick. *263 (1838).

2 Williams v. Brufty, 102 U. S. 249 (1880), Field, J. ' Smith V. Western Union Tel. Co., 83 Ky. 271 (188B). * Draper v. Davis, 102 U. S.371 (1880), cases; Hoveyu Mc Donald, 109 id. 169 (1883). s Sage V. Central E. Co., 93 U. S. 417 (1876), cases; 109 id. 160; 9 Bened. 209. » E. S. § 1007; 109 U. S. 159-61. ' See fully E. S. §§ 2011-81; Exp. Siebold, 100 U. S. 371